ah, museums are important for preserving our history so that it isn't lost to future generations . but our physical museum spaces themselves a relic of the past. this is one of the best museums in the world, but sometimes in saint petersburg, how property is the director here? and i bet he has met with the i've never intentionally violated any countries territory. that's the message from china as the u. s. suggest beijing is deliberately using his balloon to spawn them inside pick up sites on russian regions. thus, moscow condemned the u. s. delivery of long range rockies to ukraine, which could potentially its crimea. g 7 imposes the price cut on russian oil to co masters revenue. president putin says the country will not export oil to states supporting the limits with just 15

pm on saturday evening here in the russian capital. i'm peter scott, and here's how the world is looking as we had into the we can, thanks for joining us. i start off with china, which has slammed the u. s. for taking advantage of its balloon in american air space criticizing what is called hysteria regarding accusations of spying on u. s. territory. this was a complete accident caused by a force, missouri, and the facts. a very clear, china has always strictly abided by international law, respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, and has never intentionally violated the territory and air space of any southern country. some politicians and media in the united states have taken advantage of the issue to attack and discredit china. china firmly opposes this. this footage appears to show a 2nd chinese balloon travelling over latin america. the pentagon has labeled it as another chinese, so that is device is not commented though. on this latest development the chinese

balloon was previously spotted floating over the city of billings. montana isn't verified. footage has spread on social media. some users believe the balloon may have exploded. as this video appears to show the u. s. officials have denied a blast. it's unclear what may have caused the explosion that you can see on your screens. that's all. as panic spreads over faces, such billions could actually be used as surveillance tools. some even saying that such operators could even be weaponized. oh, he's getting more been does deeper into the recent spots over china is bullying? china has confirmed that this is a chinese balloon, as a weather balloon used for media illogical research by the chinese authorities. now they have made clear that this balloon serves no military purpose. it's not being used for spying or anything of that. a fact,

it's simply for monitoring the weather. this balloon is of chinese origin. it was 1st over the aleutian islands than it was in billings, montana. there is some concern about the possibility that it's near nuclear sites that it's also been confirmed by a number of experts in the united states that there is nothing that could be obtained from such a balloon that couldn't easily be attained by china with satellites. i was satellites, they could just as easily get any information and that there is no threat to civilians posed by this below. this is not a weaponized balloon. this is not a drone or anything like that. there is no danger to civilians by this balloon. now it is worth noting, however, the antony blanket, the u. s. secretary of state did cancel his meeting with the chinese president, and i canceled it saying that this balloon is the reason i may clear that the presence of the surveillance balloon in you as her space is a clear violation of your sovereignty and international law. that it's an irresponsible act that the pure seas decision to take. the section on the my plan

visit is detrimental to the subset of discussions that we were prepared to have. now the language that's being used by us officials and by us media is they're referring to it as a spy bull loan. and there are reports of another. ready bloom somewhere in latin america, possibly another balloon of chinese origin. and it is worth noting that beijing has apologize for this bowler and they said it was not their intention to violate us aerospace this balloon went off course. however, beijing has been pretty firm to denounce the anti china town and the antique china hysteria, the wave of hostility to china. we're now hearing in american media now there is a social media bonanza going on. of course, all kinds of names and images, people, invoking star wars, the death star, all kinds of science fiction. you know, there's memories of spot neck in the panic in the united states. back in the 1950s,

in response to the soviet union was launching the the spacecraft and you know, people are making all kinds of comparison. there's been the talk of american media . however, at this point, china is pointing out. this is the unintentional violation of us aerospace by a balloon that could not really threaten to anyone that has no danger, even according to us experts. they're saying that their territorial integrity was intentionally violated by nancy pelosi. she went on to china's territory. and sy juan, without the permission of the us, recognize chinese government. the u. s. government recognizes one china. so china is pointing out that while they are not intentionally violating any countries, territorial integrity or aerospace it appears the united states is ban on continuing to kind of haunt china with their provocations around taiwan that are definitely intentional and involve more than just balloons. and this point high ranking officials and there is also may be pointed out that us drones and other us

aircraft have violated character integrity and aerospace of. ready countries throughout history, this kind of thing has happened from the us side. however, this has not stopped american media from going into an anti china overdrive. there is all kinds. ready of very fierce allegations and heated language being displayed on us media and from us officials cross live now to nelson, long vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact on international studies. could even see, you know, someone has to join us today. now the us says, this is a chinese spy bloom. china says it's a whether monitoring device. is this the load of a hotter over nothing? well, i mean, this is apparently not a pleasant incident, but i don't believe it is wise for anybody to make a big fuss of it because the chinese government has confirmed in the 1st place that this below all this ship or exactly what you call it is from china and

china feels regret for its intended entry into u. s. s space. i'm not a balloon expert. i consulted a few experts and was told that. ready for balloons of this kind, they are most commonly used for weather research or metro roger cope purposes. but so i think let's leave it to the 2 sides, governments or respective institutions to, to find a solution to handle this incident. there is no need to make a big fuss on it. i think this is a bit too late for that though nelson certainly seems to be immediate storm surrounding this balloon. now i'm up to no balloon experts either, but today the people the speed to suggest that this balloon could do more than, for example, a satellite code. if it's, if it were that way,

inclined square. i think china has enough satellites already. if china wants to do any surveillance, why should they use the pollutants, which are so big and so obvious? now i don't think this connection makes any sense sending the $1000000.00 question . now obviously it has prompted the secretary of state anthony blinking to cancel his trip to china. do you think this is a justified move and what impact do you think this will have on the already tense relations between the 2 countries? surely now should be the time to be speaking. well, let's admit to that, to the relations between china and the us. have been quite difficult actually in recent months. so the scheduled visit, as was announced by the us government for and to me blinking to visit my jean got cancelled. but they use this balloon incident as an excuse,

but i don't think this is actually true. however, well, china has never confirmed any confirmed visits of antony blanket and so let's see. i mean we're all have to what can see but whatever the case, i think the wisdom to run it of both countries, leaders and i've all depressed for now to test. well, let's hope that the cooler had prevail. nelson nelson, long vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact and international studies. pleasure is always helping the channel. thank you. meanwhile, us officials on sunday, the alarm over fears the chinese believe we've just been speaking about could be used by on american nuclear missile sites in montana to get more in this story of the news do hello, it's all web sites r t dot com or some service men have returned from ukraine in

a prison swap according to russia's defense ministry. now this video of the exchange was posted by a deputy of the state duma, which clearly shows the service on returning from captivity. negotiations were conducted with the help of the united states, and the russian defense ministry says that the russian soldiers are getting all the support that they need is the opinions of some of them. what she wants to go home so badly was called the support from our nearest and dearest. it's all right. now we are finally home. thanks to everybody who rescued us from captivity. many thanks to those guys on to the line now where the city of done yet has been shelved by ukraine this morning. at least one person has been injured according to local officials, the theme to smoke could be seen above. nearby buildings located in a residential area of the city. latest attack comes as washington has pledged to send ground, launched a small diamond of bombs, which a long range rockets to ukraine, which would enable care to strike much further than the current weapons they

possessed. now moscow has criticized the weapons deliveries since the u. s. is pushing ukraine to attack russia. washington sees no boundaries in seeking to inflict a strategic defeat and russia, the transfer of increasingly powerful weapons to the keepers. him is a deliberate escalation of the conflict by the united states. that ministration has been almost everything on the credit cards. its own national authority, the money of american taxpayers and the lives of ukrainian soldiers at this rate than other states could go to opposite madness like given father. jess washington is defect in southern its procedures to attack russian regions. the grow loans of small dom at the bomb has a range of around 150 kilometers, which is twice a distance of ukraine's current high miles. rockets, which are also supplied by the u. s. long range. missiles are set to be highly accurate and can be fired from hidden positions to avoid detection. washington says they would enable ukraine to attack bush in territories, including crimea. a small diameter bomb in the latest ukraine aid package has the

potential the target crimea. is that the intent behind providing it now? so thanks for the question, joe. so, so yes, as part of the usa i package, we will be providing ground launch small diameter bombs to ukraine. this gives them a longer range capability, long range virus capability that will enable them again to conduct operations in defense of their country and to take back their sovereign territory. russian occupied areas where we discuss the issue earlier with the co director of the international action center thera flounders, who believes the us is intent on dragging out the conflicts. the us isn't ignoring the warnings they are deliberately, deliberately provoking further and further, or they know the consequences of this. and they're more than willing to push ahead

. there's an enormous number of weapons and us, you know, inventory to big a, lots of choices. but it's clear that each choice is meant to expand the war, to do more damage, not in any way to reach a resolution. it will also mean on, on russia's part that they will have to go further into ukraine in order to secure their borders to russia. lashes borders. so it's an expansion of the war. it's very dangerous. there's no reason for it. it's more money, but higher grade of weapons that actually have double the range. which comes amid more overnight, attacks by ukrainian forces on the region of lou ganske with multiple high mas rockets as well as civilian areas. ukraine force is also targeted rushes, heavy flames throw systems ortiz, senior correspondent, i guess the of brings this report from the front on the battlefield. there is

nothing that ukrainian troops and nationalists fear more than this. a machine that has instantly broken in car battalions and turn the tide of countless battles. it's yo as one of the robbery multiple, a rocket launch, a system. and perhaps the deadliest weapon currently fielded on the battlefield. and ukraine 24 rockets, 270 kilograms. each fargo a distance from 6 to 10 kilometers and absolutely fatal to anything within a 150 meter radius. asking only silly or main talk is how large concentration is a phantom troops. twilio more people and also vehicles. if anyone caught within the

bus radio has particularly no chance of survival, thermo barrick, munitions or vacuum bombs on nothing like conventional munitions. it isn't shrapnel that kills but flash burn and crushing over pressure which causes instant death. you can't hide from this behind a wall. only a hermetically shield bunker offers protection. and there are none here. the 4th round, ah, her sound is always for the purposes of gregoire. it's up in the sky, draw mold spot where it landed so that new coordinates, and off they go again, 20 full rockets, 6 and a half tons of annihilation. hope

these rockets are usually fired in ones or twos as little point of full barrages. a single rocket practice has shown is usually overkill. almost nothing survives within a 150 meters of the impact site lester illness that way or where all this ready. we get a job done. what i fight for my family and those close to me. we're all here for our homeland. we're here to help our voice. the san say book translated as sunburn or sun, fire is always the top priority for ukrainian forces. it cannot stay anywhere long . it cannot far from the same place twice. here spares no one and nothing to find and destroy these machines. after all,

they have devastated ukraine's ranks like nothing else or at gasdio. archie, danny, at screeching g 7 has agreed to impose a price cap on russian oil which will take effect on sunday. the new price for products such as diesel would be $100.00 per barrel and $45.00 for fuel oil. the president of the european commission praise the decision as a move aimed at stabilizing global energy market. we must continue to deprive russia the means to wage war against ukraine. eas, impala ban and russian petroleum products comes into force on sunday. with the g 7, we are putting price caps on these products, cutting rushes revenue, while ensuring stable global energy markets or rushes retired measures to the g $7.00 crude or price cup imposed in december last year came into effect on the 1st of february. and that means that the export to countries supporting the price cuts are no longer possible. where some president vladimir putin early stated that

russia will only trade oil with countries that have hit the fat markets rules of the country with chris and discusses the failures of the price. come we got a $100.00 price cap on what we call premium oil. oh, you know, premium or like diesel and $45.00 on on, you know, our other products that that may be used. and the interesting thing about this is this price cap predominately has been imposed by the but by the presidency, sweden. so sweden actually uses it relies on 60 percent or even more of renewable energy. they not soil dependent compared to that. they're both take european partners like yeah. and even touch like potent until the beginning of the special military operation. but more or less totally dependent on russian oil in terms of the trading products that were important. so really the end, the baltic states now said look, ok, we'll take this for now. but we want to review every 2 months on this price gap.

and it's very, very hard to see how these countries are going to be able to depend on oil from the united states, or from the opec, plus countries like saudi arabia that have said, look, we cannot, we will refuse to or pass the, we won't give you any more than we are producing right now, which leads them in a very sticky spots, looking at where russian, russian, oil, and gas exports are going these days. ever since the start of the special ministry operation, even before then, russia has already started trading with that there are other partners. they weren't solely dependent on the west. china is buying more russian oil and gas than ever before. the chinese economy can eat up as much as possible. if we look at india, for example, we've got a lot of western states saying they're buying indian oil, but we're pretty aware that that indeed oil coming in, originated in russia with a majority of it. so it's very hard to see how this affects the russian economy whatsoever, and only really hurts the part of me. those. those are, those are those western countries that are saying that banning it states of

emergency has been declared in several regions of central still than chile. after deadly far as far as of last 13 people dead and 9 injured the fires by devastation, he wavered forth to the store. more than 200 homes and 47000 head of forest. according to authorities, the casualties include 2 crew members of a helicopter fighting the blades as well as a firefighter. 2300 emergency service men on 75 aircraft onto the involved in containing the inferno. officials say a state of emergency will allow south american countries to make more resources available to assist over to nigeria. now, where a teenage boy has been killed and hundreds of votes. the materials destroyed in the latest attacks on the lights or commission offices on a police station in south eastern nigeria, just weeks before locals heads as opposed to custom votes in presidential elections . the national, a total commission has voice concerns of violence, could impact the voting, at least 50 attacks against this stuff. and offices by arms groups have been

reported over the last 3 years. the majority of the incense in the south eastern part of the country west sentiment remained strong. instability remains a key issue for jury's northern promises. where security forces are fighting a 13 year walk and see how it is and criminal, malicious sees nigeria correspondent takes a closer look what the ways the country in the clean elections. on february 25th, 2023. my jillions will head for the polls like a new precedence, outgoing precedence. mohammad who ruled for years, however, the increased abductions and killings in the north. in addition, the separatists. tensions in south eastern parts of the country, of great concern to the citizens and put a good place to the elections. i will not advise you to watch that police will be, you know, security in the body. the question before you come up, there will kill many people. the government has

a whether insisted that the spice to grow with insecurity. the elections will not be postponed, nor cancelled as insensitive and extensive security will be provided. also, the election process is shredding the safety and security to a vote. does by enormous this responsibility has become more challenging in the context of the current security situation. or you can show you any, any one test one don't bring the little we don't, we decided to be 18 presidential candidates are contested. we are all aware of the security issues on a promising to resolve it before any of the a few candidates come to class when f. he has to have the highest number of both nationwide and more than a quarter of ballot costs in at least 2 3rd of the my you in states. my jury has over my to 1000000, but you said voted. i'm almost 40 percent of the number a youth between the ages of 80 successful. so countries witnesses renewed youth

engagement in policy like never before. mid ongoing security concerns. nigeria, which is africa, the largest crude oil producer. this is the worst thing, shortage of petroleum products, has locals. q for our special with the new national currency swap, only adding to the turbulence, nigerian oil and gas consultants. joe was new way told us that the best way to overcome the situation is to deregulate the sites to the challenge has been the limited infrastructure that will allow it to be brought into the trance. i did. there was, i'm from then to the patient so that and there has been an ongoing conversation for years. but at this cavities are not there, does it go for the list that we've, we've listed for a long time. and the outer has been that we need to do it, lead to settle to allow private sector investment really. and that's as what the p

a, the new law of the land requires that we do. but the government has been a bit slow and implementing the book of the under the people have taken to the streets of the pakistani city of peshawar in a peaceful protest on friday, advocating unity in the fight against terrorism. oh, the broker follow a 3rd. the 2nd a mosque on monday that killed at least a 100 people injured around 200, he focused on insoluble. amanda initially claimed responsibility of the attack for the organization late had denied any involvement. events caused a stir with locals on photo. this took to the streets with slogans against terrorism on encouraging peace. we spoke to some demonstrations about their concerns and we are demanding peace from our current government and state. why are only pashtuns being massacred whenever there is protest?

we ask the question why passions are bomb? i'm a little bit, but guess my concern is peace. i did not allow my children to go to school today because of the fear that it is friday, and there would be an attack again by 300 horse. it is. the only reason we came out is because we're one piece on our land hebert buck tune qua. and petula, we are against terrorism, and whoever is behind it, it is unacceptable for us to restart the soul at god bless her up for now. what have you doing this weekend? i hope you having a great one on pizza. scott will be back again on the top of the hour. do stay with us here on our see from all grade programs with . ah, museums are important for preserving our history so that it is

a lot to future generations. but our physical museum spaces themselves a relic of the past. this is one of the best museums in the world, the competition st. petersburg. how profit is the director here? and i bet he has meant to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic and going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk ah, with

this sort of a snare? yes. a november 22nd 2022 count raised orthodox christians, confronted ukrainian security service officers looking entrances and exits. the keys, oldest monastery, were looking for alleged russian spies among the monks. i was just calling about bringing my la la a today, ukrainian security services can brandon agent of moscow. any mon go priest. unwilling to break relations with the russian orthodox church, dozens of ukrainian churches have been rated. the former reason for the brutal crack down one church, his parishioners said, some a song about russia ah me.

after numerous searches, s b u officers reported they'd found orthodox magazines printed in russia. the s b u didn't care that these publications were religious and had been printed more than 3 years before. oh maybe, but they were from moscow in ukraine. it's long been recently enough to condemn any old adult christian attack, imprison and even kill them with stale, less walnut. cromwell gray is kept by the grains going be stored near la, noted, but i can't be media school in our slow unfold. i remember when you view space, i don't know what's going on with come on a couple of i was thinking, if possible, you may hang up though. i mean, yeah, i got a photo at the place with people

a gathering to pray in the church of saint john of constant on the outskirts of done it's a few years ago. a rocket fired by the ukranian army, destroyed the church, but it continues to operate. this unique cause. we're looking at b riley in, you must be f o p m. you know, it's not supposed to bring you a few blue cross station. you can imagine a people have done it, it's good. today's live g ask just one question. what's happened to the country where those who pray for peace have been out all and most importantly, to divided ukraine along religious lines used to stop a seamless and you have um, i used to miss dodd, this is mimi with

your premium in 2008 tens of thousands gathered in cave to welcome the russian orthodox church. hierarchy would come from moscow for the $1020.00 of the anniversary of christianity in russia. library. 87, you got a pretty good athlete. la. i feel bad year with the people challenging here don't do. of course it in a few short, he is those who welcome to moscow patriarch and keith will be efficiently regarded as enemies of the ukrainian state. ah oh, so what do you want for some noise? i guess yeah for.